Tammy - Secret Origin Interview Version

Q: So, you're not actually an alien princess?

A: No.  I'm as human as the next person.

Q: Except you have superpowers.

A: Well, yeah.  Except for that. 

Q: Where did you get your powers from?

A: Basically, I was born with them. 

Q: Do they run in your family then?

A: Um, no.  Not really.

Q: Then where did they come from?

A: The short answer is "Just lucky I guess".  The long answer is, well... You know how some guy can work in a nuclear power plant, and one day a squirrel that's been drinking from the glowing water dashes out and bites him?  And most guys, they'd get rabies, or lukemia or something.  But this one guy, that doesn't happen to him.  Instead, he winds up the Amazing Squirrel Man, King of the Rodents.  There's no reason; he just drew the lucky card and got to be the one guy in the million who has a freak accident and comes out with superpowers.

Q: Your parents worked at a power plant?

A:  No.  My mother did a lot of drugs when she was pregnant.  In a fair world I'd have an IQ of 60, or flippers, or something,  But instead there was some wild and improbable combination of chemicals and DNA and whatever, and I got born with superpowers.  Which boils down to the short answer: "Just lucky, I guess."

Q: That's not what the press releases said...

A: No.  I think the PR flaks correctly decided that crack baby superpowers wouldn't go over well marketing a wholesome teen and they just vaguely said I was "exposed to some chemicals" or dodged the issue entirely.  Given the number of whackjobs that drink power plant runoff in the hopes of an origin, I can see their point.  The last thing anyone needed was teen mothers trying to imitate what happened.